( 250 ) 



juveuile plumage, but raonlt nlmost completed) (dark brown in No. 1105 — (?) — ) 

 (golden yellow); c? juv. lemon-yellow; ? jnv. yellow; feet in adults (lemon) 

 yellow, in young ones also yellow ; liill lil;ie,k (slate, bluish slate) ; in young 

 blue-slate with black tip." 



The young female, No. 3i.'4S Meek coll., described Xoi: Zoo/. IO113, p. r.ni, nf 

 which we already suggested tliat it might imf belcnig to A. ruforc/i/K/'iri'i/.i, is also 

 a young A. alhogularis. 



10. Astur etorques rubianae snbsp. nov. 



Axliir supra cino schistacpus, subtus satin ate nifo-cinnamomeus,— Subspeciei .I.e. riifnsdiixliirriis 

 dictae similis, sed minor, coloribus saturatioribus, pullioriljus. r? al. 10.5 — '200, $ al. 206 — 

 214 mm. 



llab. Rubiana (New Georgia); Gizo, lieiidova {'I'f/jir : ? ad. Gizo, •!'. xi. 

 1903, No. A. 652. A. S. Meek coll.) 



2 cJad., 2 ? ad., Rendova, February 1904 (Nos. A. .1199, 120n, 12(i>i, 1341). 

 1 S fere ad., 1 ¥ jnv., New Georgia, March 1904 (Nos. A. Uln, 14.")4). 



1 ? ad., fiizo, 37. xi. 19o:^ (No. A. 6.i2). 



"Iris reddish brown (bright chocolate;; feet cadmium (liright yellow); bill 

 black, cere yellow." 



2i>. Astur etorques rufoschistaceus R. A H. 



AxIki- riifnuhhtnreiis Rothsch. & Hai-f.. Nor. Znnl. 1002, p. 5011 (Isabel). 



2 c?ad., 2 ? ad., 1 S juv., 1 ? juv., Choiscul, Deci'mber 1903 (Nos. A. S85, 904, 

 978, 1032, 10S2, ln,s3). 



" Ad. : Iris dark brown ; feet cadmium ; bill blarlc." 



21. Astur etorques bougaiuvillei subsp. unv. 



Astur subspeciei -1. e. rvfoschhtairns diclae persimilis, sed colore cinerco dorsi, colli, capitisqne 

 pallidiore, necnon .statura miiiore, baud difficile di-<tiiiguendns. Al. jj 194— 1 Oil mm. 



Hah. Bongainville Island. ( 7}///*', No. A. ].").")(j. A. S. Meek coll.) 



i". (?c? ad., Bougainville Island, April 1904 (Nos. ir>r..-|, ir,ll, jOl'.i, |(i.-i9, KWii). 



" Iris brown : feet cadmium ; bill black." 



The rufous-aud-grey Astur-group. 



In Xor. y.ool. 190l, p. 3.>0, we nulled .\.fUir jiKlrlirlbi.'i Wams. and .1. .s//c//f>c 

 Sharpe, and in Nor. Znol. 1902, p. 590, we described .1. riifo.wliist(icfiiiK from Isabel 

 as a new subspecies. We were right in considering .{. shcbac to be a synonym 

 of A. /tKlchelliis, but not when we concluded from this that the birds from New 

 Georgia were identical with those from Guadalcanar. 



Pr. Ramsay most clearly described a bird with ]iale thighs, and Dr. Sharpe, 

 thi'refcire, was wrong in taking the form with dark thighs from the central gronp 

 0.9. jiiili'Iii'llii.^, Siw\ separating from it the Guadalcanar bird with pale thighs. The 

 difficulty is, that Dr. Ramsay gave as the original locality of his puleheUns " Cape 

 Pitt," and later on " Cape Pitt, dluadalcanar." As "Cape Pitt" we find marked 

 on all maps the soutliernninst jioint of New (ieorgia.. There must therefore have 

 been an error in the original statement, either that a place on (iuadalcanar was called 

 Cape Pitt, or that there was some other misnnderstanding, because it is iierfectly 

 clear that Dr. Ramsay described the pale-legged form from Guadalcanar, which 



